Our best wishes to the estimable Mr Powell in this titanic endeavour :)
Indeed so - although his titanic endeavours have, of course, already been achieved and witnessed at the performance itself (which I had the honour and pleasure of attending). Quite how Mr Powell takes all this in and on continues to remain rather beyond me, I have to admit - yet take it all in and on he most magnificently has done! Just getting though that piece intelligently and intelligibly would probably be more than enough to put most of the tiny handful pianists that might be capable of doing so in hospital for an extended period of time; not, however, the uniquely indefatigable and commanding Mr Powell who, as I write, is performing another massively challenging work, Albéniz's splendid
Iberia, in a festival in the north west of my country and I do so wish that it had been possible for me to be there, too!
